A few things came to an end in this week’s episode, so let’s break it all down.

Carrie’s injured and roaming around in the dark mill in search of Abu Nazir (good thing she brought that crowbar). She hears footsteps and enters another mysterious door, but finds she’s exited to a squadron of FBI. She’s lost her target.

Quinn asks how she got away. “I escaped,” she says, not mentioning Brody and the deal he brokered with Abu Nazir. Quinn tells her about Walden’s death by heart attack.

At the apartment, Brody stares out the window. Jessica says she spoke to Mrs. Walden, who’s barely holding up. “It’s all changed, hasn’t it, now that Bill’s gone?” she says. “It’s all changed. Everything.” What happened to their marriage, their family?

Brody’s phone vibrates and it’s – you guessed it – Carrie. So much for the heart-to-heart between husband and wife. Brody’s relieved Carrie’s okay. She says Abu Nazir is being hunted. They agree to keep Brody’s end of the deal a secret. “All that matters to me right now is that you’re safe,” Brody says. It’s twisted romance but Carrie accepts it. Jessica, who’s been watching her husband talk to his lover, tearfully leaves the room.

Saul must face the dreaded polygraph test. Estes has ordered him to take it again, questioned by a special guy. Saul is asked if he provided the weapon Aileen used to kill herself. He knows he’s being framed by Estes for her death. “You know what this really is about? He planned to assassinate a U.S. Congressman the second Abu Nazir was out of the picture,” Saul tells the interrogator.

Back at the mill, Abu Nazir can’t be found, but Carrie doesn’t believe he got out. “He got help, he must have,” she says, bringing up the leaks all along in their investigation. The mole hasn’t disappeared! Quinn and his men go back for another look.

Carrie asks who else has led the men, and Quinn mentions Galvez. She immediately suspects Galvez (“He is a Muslim”) over Quinn. The FBI stop Galvez and investigate his car, but there’s no sign of Abu Nazir. Carrie, consumed with finding her man, lashes into Galvez. He says he was just going to the hospital.

[Mini Galvez-recap:

Galvez: I heard Carrie was in trouble so I came to help!

Carrie: He is a Muslim. He must be the mole! Get him!

Galvez: My stitches broke and I was just going to the hospital!

Carrie: WHERE IS HE??]

Back with the Brodys, a cabin-fevered Dana is flipping out over spilled milk. She says Mike has been a better father than Brody ever was, basically verbalizing what they all believe is true.

At CIA headquarters, Carrie tries to wash the blood off her face. She enters an interrogation room with Roya (though Estes has asked Quinn to question her) and shares her ordeal with Abu Nazir. She builds up Roya, tells her she was never a soldier. It’s all Abu Nazir, not her, she says, hoping to get Roya to help them.

Roya tears up when Carrie brings up her family who was killed, and answers by asking Carrie, “Have you ever had someone who somehow takes over your life, pulls you in, gets you to do things that aren’t really you? That you know are wrong, but you can’t help yourself? Do you have anyone like that?” Carrie’s answer, “Yes.” Roya’s face stiffens and her voice strengthens, “Well, I have never been that stupid.” She grabs Carrie’s wrists and begins screeching that Abu Nazir isn’t afraid of her and wouldn’t run.

Estes has enough on Saul now from the polygraph test, but the interrogator brings up the assassination plot he mentioned, adding that he left it out of the report since it was an anomaly.

On her drive home, Carrie stalls at a green light. She suddenly drives in the other direction. She calls Quinn and says Roya’s words have stayed with her: Abu Nazir wouldn’t run. She is heading back to the mill and Quinn says he’ll be there soon.

Estes meets Saul with the results of the polygraph. Saul knows what he’s doing. Saul asks how he’s going to defend himself when it comes to his plan to kill Brody. Estes says they don’t make deals with terrorists. He doesn’t like how Saul continually undermines him and so he’s gone. He will use the report against Saul for the rest of his natural life.

Carrie and some FBI men go into the tunnels in search of Abu Nazir — because no one can say no to Carrie, it seems. She sees a wall that appears to have a room behind it and asks one of the FBI men to check it out. He enters and finds a sleeping bag and wrappers. “You’re right, he was here,” he says. “No more, though.” As Carrie runs for help, she hears the man get killed. Abu Nazir comes at her with a knife and Carrie runs screaming, “He’s here!” Abu Nazir chases after her with knife and she hides, watching the beam of his flashlight. He comes up from behind and punches her, when a troop of FBI men suddenly come in. They surround Abu Nazir as he kneels on the ground with the knife by his side. He reaches into his jacket as one of the men shoots him.

Carrie emerges and kneels over him. Abu Nazir is finally dead.

Estes comes over and tells Carrie, “Good work.” The President will be thanking the agency soon. “You must be very happy,” he says. She takes one last look at Abu Nazir’s body and tears up.

Estes quietly tells Quinn to take out Brody as soon as possible, saying it’ll look like blowback for getting Abu Nazir.

Brody learns that Abu Nazir’s been killed, and he looks away in shock, before choking back tears. They can all go home. As their car pulls up at their house, Brody watches his wife and children from the driver’s seat. This is the end for him. He’s not coming inside. Jessica and he say they’re both tired of fighting. They both tried. “I was [screwed] the moment I left for Iraq. We all were,” Brody says, in a heart-wrenching moment of truth. He brings up the crazy things Carrie said to Dana that day, but Jessica stops him. She doesn’t want to know more, even though she apparently already does. ”Carrie knows everything about you, she accepts it, and you must love her a lot,” Jessica says – a rare moment of total elucidation.

Brody comes to Carrie’s. “What I did to get Nazir to let you go, it was you or Walden, Carrie. It wasn’t even close.” These two are now forever intertwined. As he enters her apartment, Quinn watches from a car.

Readers, what did you think of this episode? Abu Nazir is now dead. Brody leaves his wife and children to be with Carrie. Quinn is ordered to kill Brody. Is Estes going to pull off his plan? Is Saul’s career over? Leave your comments below.

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